TARIFF: Reopened

The question of
high or low tariff, long a battleground between Republicans and
Democrats, has in recent years lost some of its pristine vigor. The
Republicans have ignored the high tariff except for perfunctory
eulogies. The Democrats have used it chiefly as a handy missile for
occasional flings at their opponents.

But agrarian dissatisfaction has recently forced it to the front, reopening the issue with something of the former bitterness. The high
tariff was belabored last week at a tariff conference called by the
Farmers' National Council in Washington, at a joint meeting...